"The Tao of Physics in Five Parts"

Day 10 of 30: Global Poetry Writing Month and National Poetry Writing Month

 

 

 

 

Today's NaPoWriMo challenge is to write a “book spine” poem. This involves taking a look at your bookshelves, and rearranging the titles to create a poem.

I liked this kinesetic way of working: creating a poem without writing or sitting at the computer, but by hanging out with my treasured books. A librarian's dream! 

  

"The Tao of Physics in Five Parts"

I.

The tao of physics is

fire in the mind,

the magic of awareness, 

an eloquent eye.

 

II.

The two truths about love are:

1. kiss that frog

2. be here now

 

III.

The rise and fall of great powers 

are reduced to three things:

1. essays on love, 

2. forks over knives.

3. how the hippies saved physics

 

IV.

Oh, Habibi. 

A reflection on Islamic art is

the new Persian kitchen --

a catalog of peculiar inventions:

Lawrence in Arabia,

the interpreter of maladies

the Alaskan bootlegger's Bible

 

V.

The wonders of the universe come down to this:

when women were birds,

they wept tears of love,

they built singing schools,  and dreamt 

bird dreams that 

hit the ground running.

 

 

© Kat Shamash, April 10, 2016

Comments

[Pat]

This is the second one of these that I really like. Interersting prompt. Well done!

[Kat Shamash]

Thanks, Pat! This was fun! Imagine what poetry could be created in a library!